Manual Training Toys for the Boy's Workshop

Featuring projects from the 19th and 20th centuries, this woodworking handbook presents family-friendly shop projects from a bygone era. Each project -- many of them toys from a simpler time when boys were trained to use tools to create useful objects -- comes with a cutting list and dimensioned drawing. Projects include a New Year's Eve rattle, a cannon that shoots marbles, a kite string reel, a pop-gun and whistle, a bow and arrow, a sword, and a magic box. This evocative guide not only instructs aspiring crafters to construct, but also provides finished products that entertain.

Harris W. Moore was the supervisor of Manual Training in Watertown, Massachusetts.